Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-23
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One OF the Chicago Bomb Throwers-A
Lawyers Important Discovery.

One OF the Chicago Bomb ThrOwers-A
Lawyers Important Discovery.
CHICAGO, February 22.-Another Anar-
chist sensation.
John C. Richberg, local lawyer, has
accidentally discovered evidence of inter
est in connection with the Anarchist trial.
The facts as they have been developed
are Substantiated by the atidavits of citi-
zens of Pullman and Kensington.
On the trial of the seven condemned An
archists, witnesses Thompson and Gilmer
SwOre that they saw two men, supposed to
be Spies aud Schwab, in the alley prior to
and simultaneous with the explosion of
the bomb; hut the aflidavitS would go to
show that the men who were in the alley
were Carl and Otto Blank, alias Anderlc,
desperate characters and ayOwed Social
lists.
The Blanks fed from the city last June
and it was only through the arrest of Carl
at Dresden, Saxony, and inquiry here as to
his reputation by the German Consul
that his supposed connection with the
Haymarket tragedy was ascertained Carl
and Otto were either brothers or cousins,
and on May ;, and until their flight in
June, they admitted that they were at the
Haymarkct and at the mouth of the alley
when the bomb was thrown.
Both of them were arOwed Anarchists
and Socialists, and they are known in the
Groups in and around this city. Photo
graphs of Otto and Carl Blank show a
A.. 4 l.t nj
August Spies and Michael Schwab strong
enough to have any person not well ac-
quainted with them readily mistake them
for Spies and Schwab in the evening or by
gas light. These men were undoubtedly
at the Haymarket, and the lawyer thinks
they may have been taken for Spies and
Schwab by Gilmer and Thompson.
An affidavit signed by Emanuel Erts-
man, o wood worker, at Pullman, Sgiven.
He says Otto Blank was wood worker in
in the same shop with himself and that
Carl rented from attiant room III which
he carried on small tailoring business.
Carl, while at Pullman, made from fifty to
one hundred uniforms of blue jeans mate
rial which, he told afiiant, were for mem
bers of certain organizations TO drill in,
that Carl Blank repeatedly avOwed himself
| TO be an Anarchist and that he was ready
and willing to do anything in that direc-
ton. That said Carl Blank had most
violent hatred toward policemen, and
would denounce them collectively and in
dividually in the strongest language at all
times, and express his hope Of getting at
them some day.
On the afternoon of May 4, Carl Blank
told affiant that he and Otto were going 10
Chicago, and, referring to the riot on the
Black road near McCormicks, the day be-
fore, denounced the police violently, say
ing that every wOrkingman should have a
bomb in his pocket to use against them.
Carl did not return To the house until the
next morning, when Ertsman was surprised
10 see that his full black beard had been
shaven off.
Carl for two days talked freely about the
Haymarket, saying he had seen the bomb
thrown and knew who threw it, but after
the beginning of the Anarchist trial he be-
came very nervous and refused to talk.
June IT he suddenly left for parts unknown,
taking with him $525 Of Ertsman's money.
He was not heard of again until the Ger
man Consul began making inquiries and
the fact of his imprisonment was learned.
Otto disappeared about the same time.
Other afiidavits are to the same effect.